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Table of Content*.
FntST Page.—Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press;
Georgia Baptist News; Missionary Field ; Or
dination ; Baptist News and Notes ; General
Denominational News.
Second Page.— Onr Correspondents : Notes on
the Act of Baptism—No. XXl—Rev. J. H.
Kilpatrick; The New Feast of tne Passover—
Bunnie; Woman not Wanted as an Evangelist
in our Churches —Prof. Sams; To the Carroll
ton Association—Rev. James Barrow; A Bad
Habit—O.; Missions: Indian Missions. Gems
Reset; etc.
Tinhd Page. —Our Pulpit: The Baptists and Re
ligious Liberty—Rev. Dr. Williams ; Science
and Education ; Select Miscellany,
Fototh Page. —Editorial: “Pike’s Faulty Il
lustrations; The Teacher —Rev. G. A. Nunnal
lv; Rev. J. B. Hartwell—Rev. D. E. Butler;
William Williams—Rev. Dr. Brantly; Sun
day-school Institute—Rev. J. F. Reeves; Edi
torial Paragraphs.
Fifth Page. Secular Editoiials; Govomor
Joseph E. Brown; Hon. John H. Christy; Rev.
J. S. Baker, D.D ; Appointments of Rev. T.
C. Boykin: Literary Gossip; Georgia News;
News of the Week—Foreign and Domestic;
Editorial Notices.
Sixth Page. —Sunday-school International Les
son for March 11th, 1877; An Open Letter
from the Sunday-school Evangelist—Rev. T.
C. Boykin; Sunday-school in Hawkinsville
and Vicinity—Rev. T. C. Boykin; Household
and Children’s Department: A Word to
Boys—Aunt Edith; Advertisements.
Seventh Page. —The Farm: Georgia Farm
Notes; Hog Cholera; Guano —What is it?; Ad
vertisements.
Eighth Page. —Obituaries ; Tribute of Respect;
Marriages; Deaths; Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
A church concert was given iD Scottsboro.
The free school at Gadsden has 60 pupils.
Wm. Lee has been appointed Superinten
dent of Education in Chilton county.
The Baptist church at Clanton is to be com
pleted.
Tuskegee has a mineral spring, and expects
to become a popular summer resort.
Rev. C. W. Callahan has removed from
Decatur to Monticello, Arkansas.
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The wheat crop of Tallapoosa is looking
very well.
It is nAnored that Chief Justice Brlckell
intends to resign*
The new union passenger depot at Mont
gomery has been opened.
The report of small-pox at Decatur was un
true.
There are 173 candidates for the county of
fices in Cullman county.
A cotton mill company has been organized
in Tuskegee.
W. C. Bulger, Sr., is re elected Mayor of
Wetumpka.
Mormon missionaries are making prose
lytes on Sand Mountain, in DeKalb county.
The wheat crop of Lamar county is very
promising.
J. R. Thomas will soon begin the publica
tion, in Mobile, of the Southern Odd Fellow.
It is proposed to establish a paper mill at
Verbena.
The Presbyterian Sunday-school of Gaines
ville contributed $16.50 to the Tuskegee Or
phan’s Home.
Rev. S. U. Smith, preaches in the Eutaw
Episcopal church the second and fourth Sun
days in each month.
Rev. P. R. McCrary, an old citizen of Dal
las, and for several months past of Selma, has
removed to Columbiana, Shelby county.
The Alabama witnesses before the Senate
Investigating Committee have all returned
home.
Major Thomas H. Price has been appointed
to the new office of Commissioner of Swamp
lands.
Mn. Lyons, of Russel county, charged with
being accessory to the murder of her husband,
has been released from prison on a $3,000
bond.
Jame* A. Scott, colored, has established a
Democratic paper, called the Advance, in
Birmingham, and it is well gotten np and well
edited.
Mr. M. P. Johnson, father of Caph Euclid
Johnson, now of Montgomery, but for many
yean of Selma, died at his residence in White
Plains, Calhoun county, on the 9th ult.
Mr. M. P. Blue has prepared a pamphlet,
which he hopes to publish soon, entitled
“Events in the History of the City o( Mont
gomery, from 1817 to 1861, calendaricaliy ar
ranged.”
Rev. William Williams, one of the profes
son of the Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary, at Greenville, S. C., who died on the
20lh ult., was a brother of the late Rev. Albert
Williams, and was at one time a practicing
lawyer in Montgomery, and waa licensed to
preach by the Fint Baptist church.
THIS SOUTH-WESTERIT T=* A -PTTRT,
of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The fact that we often estimate our duty
from a false basis is thus touched upon by the
Watchman :
The low and worldly expedients that degrade
the church may seem to be not only allowable,
but required, to one who has inwardly deter
mined that his life is not to be more than mod
erately religious. The conclusion is, that even
our sense of duty may need examining. It
may be like Jeroboam’s Bense of duty to pro
vide his people with a religion, and the prodi
gal’s sense of duty to secure a living in the tar
country. Our conviction of duty may have
sprung up because of our unwillingness to do
a greater duty. It is safe to ask whether we
do not need to go deeper and lay the founda
tions anew, in a better consecration and a
closer conformity to the mind of Christ.
Word and Work says: “Someone esti
mates that all the prayers recorded in the Bible
could he repeated in thirty-five minutes. Most
of them are from one to two minutes long.
The prayer of Solomon is less than ten min
ute*. Is there not a lesson and a warning in
these facts, which should be noted by Chris
tians ? Let us not imagine that we are to be
heard for our much speaking.’’
—The Western Recorder touches upon a mat
ter in the following, which is worthy of the
consideration of the members of our churches.
The advice is good ; let us lieed it:
Whatever tends to make Christians better
acquainted with each other is a real gain for
the cause of Christ. A kind word, a nod of
recognition, a cordial grasp of the hand, a
friendly call, all those “small, sweet nothings”
that smooth the pathway and lighten the bur
dens of life, all these things are real and posi
tive helps to Christian growth and progress.
While we would by every possible means en
courage the formal worship of God on the
Sabbath, yet we have no doubt that a kind
word or a cordial greeting often does more to
lead men to Christ than a sermon. Eloquent
preaching is certainly a good thing. But those
bodies of Christian believers where brotherly
love “continues” whose histories are eloquent
with deeds of kindness and friendship for their
fellowmen, these are the churches whose “can
dlestick” will not be removed, and whose light
will shine brighter and brighter until the per
fect day.
—We have heard of men being converted all
over, even to their purses. But the following,
which we find in the Methodist , shows that the
work be but partially done :
Theie ate many people who seem to be only
half “born again” when they are converted.
They make a covenant to give up all affection
for worldly pleasures, but mentally reserve
the determination to have as good a time as a
liberal interpretation of their covenant will
allow. One day Donald heard the the swift
notes of the bag-pipe, and at once began to
dance in the most hilarious manner, but curi
ously enough, on one foot. “Why, man," said
a neighbor, “what is the matter with the other
foot—are you lame Donald?” “Oh, no, not
lame," he answered, “but that foot belongs to
the church.” It would seem that there must
be a large number of one-legged church mem
bers in the world.
—The Pittsburg Advocate says :
No church can live vigorously, without the
spirit of prapagandism, and the practice. The
missionary zeal of a church must be accepted
as one of the surest indications of its power,
and one of its most valid reasons for public
confidence.
—“Edwin Booth realized $52,000 from his
Southern tour,” so say the newspapers. “The
Southern Methodists of the Memphis Confer
ence paid their eighty pastors last year only
$45,823.53. One man’s playing for fifty nights
cost more than eighty men’s preaching for a
whole year.” So says the Western Methodist,
and adds the very pertinent question to the
laity. “Brethren of the laity, which are the
most in earnest, the people ol the world or the
people of God ?”
—The Transylvania Presbyterian, with great
for<e and depth of feeling remarks:
This life is a pieparation period, brief and
ever hastening to a close! We may forget
that such is its character and we may fail to
improve its precious moments as they pass, but
once gone, they are gone forever. If time be
misimproved and opportunities wasted, we our
selves are the losers.
Many seem to think that because life is short,
therefore the great object of individual effort
should be to grasp as much of the world as
possible, and drink of its fountains of pleasure
as largely as possible. What a mistake ! Life
is not only a preparation period for something
better and higher and more enduring, but the
preparation supposed implies labor and priva
tion, and even suffering. Yes, it includes cross
bearing.
To those who have labored, Heaven will be
a rest. Those who suffer privation and sor
row for Christ’s sake here, shall hereafter be
sharers in Hia glory. Those who follow
ing Christ bear the cross, Bhall hereafter wear
the crown. Each one saved shall be by grace,
and yet this reward shall be determined as to
its measure by wbat he here does and suffers
for Christ.
—How to get people (o work is well stated
by the Rational Baptist :
The pastor who can lead others to work
multiplies himself; is not one man, but a dozen,
a hundred. But do not think this easily done.
To do it successfully is one of the greatest gifts
of God. If the pastor doea it to save himself
the trouble of working, he has failed before he
begins. It it really harder, and demands
more ability than to do it all himself. As we
once beard a wise man say, “Any fool can do
the work himself; but to set other people to
work is the mark of a wise man. It demands
breadth, sympathy, knowledge of human char
acter, the guidance of the Spirit. But it needs
to be ; it must be done, if there is to be health
among us.
—Most beautifully and eloquently the Con
gregationalist discourses upon the sublimest of
all themes that can engage us—the immortality
of the soul:
The Christian believes in the immortality of
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the soul, but he too commonly conceives of
“soul” in that connection as an abstract entity;
as if there were some vast etherial existence
which, to the spiritual realm, should be what
matter is to the realm material. Whereas, the
immortality of the soul, if it be at all, is the
immortality of your soul, an individual soul;
distinct in its personality from every other; a
being complete in and by itself.
Now, again, the immortality of the individ
ual soul means nothing less than the immor
tality of the faculties which constitute that
soul ; all its varied intellectual powers, ita
motions and affections; its will. The soul is
not a thing apart from that within us which
thinks and feels, and hopes, and fears, remem
bers and rejoices. It includes within itself, all
that complicated mechanism of perception,
reason, desire, taste and choice, which makes
of each of us what we are.
We cannot see, therefore, how the immortal
ity of souls—we prefer that form of expression
—falls short of the perpetuation of the individ
uality in the life to come. Each man will be
himself in that life, as he has been in this; sanc
tified, it is true, ennobled and directed to new
endeavors ; but the same man still, extending
into anew sphere, and expending upon new
materials under inspirtion for new purposes, the
activities which have engaged him here.
To us this sharp distinguishment of the per
sonal in immort'-dity gives great zest to our
anticipations of the future that shall be reveal
ed. The enjoyment of a healthful state of
mind, and heart and body here, are such that
one might cling to earth if it were thought
that death meant the stopping of the machine,
the end ; ng of its work. But to the Christian
death is not a stopping; it is a removal simply
to a higher sphere, where the pleasure of sym
metrical and harmonious activity shall be en
hanced, even as the activity itself is to be infi
nitely elevated. If the immortality of our
souls means anything, it means that we shall
carry ourselves out of this world into another ;
if we are Christ’s into another that shall be
better; and that we shall not there lose the
consciousness of personal identity, nor miss
that identity in others.
So it may be to the Christian that Heaven
shall seem but a little way off; even “the next
room," as it were; to step into which is to
breathe a fresh atmosphere, and direct his
energies to new occupations ; but to be himself
still. Only to be himself still. Only be for
ever free from sin, and forever with the Lord.
Why should we dread a scene like this?
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
—The brethren of Jefferson and vicinity, a
a recent conference selected Rev. Mr. Hay
good as pastor.
—A Bible class, to hold its regular meet
ings on the second and fourth Sabbaths of
month, uas been organized in the Bapimi
church at Cave Spring.
—The first sermon was preached in the new
Baptist church at Lincolnton, Saturday 25th
ult., by Rev. J. J. S. Calloway.
—Rev. L. R. L. Jennings continues as
pastor of the Warrenton Baptist church.
—From brother W. F. Sinquefield, Secre
tary of the meeting, we have received, under
date of February 27th, the following good
news:
At a meeting, held by a goodly number of
brethren at Tennille last Saturday, it was de
termined to constitute a missionary Baptist
church at that place on Saturday before the
fourth Sabbath in March. Brethren T. J.
Adams, J. J. Hyman, J. M. Wood, J. M.
Donalson, P. J. Pipkin, B. H. Ivey and T. J.
Cumming, were cordially invited to meet with
us, and assist in its organization.
—Brother J. A. Ansley, of Americus,
under date of February 27th, sends us the fol
lowing gratifying intelligence :
“It will be gratifying to many of the readers
of The Index to learn that Dr. G. F. Cooper
has resumed the pastorate and accepted the call
of the Americus church. Dr. 0. is a clear,
strong and forcible preacher, a fearless advo
cate of the truth, and an excellent pastor; and
by being the living exponent of the truths he
preaches, he commands the highest esteem and
confidence of other denominations and the out
side world.
While Dr. C. is eminent as a physician and
at the head of his profession in this section of
the State, the ministry could not afford to
spare such min as he in these times when the
church and the world are getting in such
amiable terms, and so rapidly blotting out the
lines of demarcation.”
We sincerely congratulate the brethren in
Americus .in securing the continued valuable
pastoral services of Dr. Cooper. No minister
in our denomination stands higher than he in
the .esteem and confidence of the churches.
Asa preacher and writer he is equally eminent,
His contributions, on a variety of important
subjects to The Index, always command atten
tion for the vigor and clearness of their style
and scholarly depth of thought. Such men
exert a very beneficial influence upon the age.
—Brother Samuel A. Burney, Treasurer of
the State Convention, writes from Madison : “I
desire to say, for the information of the
brethren who may put pose sending remit
tances to be reported to the Convention at
Gainesville, that the books of the Treasurer
will be closed on the first of April.”
—The Douglasville Medium of the first
inst., says:
Rev. Mr. Moore having written the Baptist
church at Douglasville, that it would be im
possible for him to serve them this year, they
have called Rev. J. M. Key to fill the vacancy.
We hope Mr. Key will accomplish much good
during his labors in this field. Mr. K. is a
good, pious man and has the confidence ot ail
who know him.
—The Thomaston Herald pays the follow
ing fine and well-deserved compliment, to the
ladies composing the Mite Society of the
Thomaston Baptist church:
The Ladies’ Mite Society of the Baptist
church have brought the entire church under
many obligations by the late improvements
they have made in their beautiful house of
worship. The pulpit has been enlarged, mak
ing it much more in keeping with the house
and adding greatly to the inside appearances.
A beautiful chandelier baß been purchased,
and put up. Every part of the house is now
flooded with light, so that there is no difficulty
in reading in any part of it.
Too much cannot be said in praise ot the
energy and devotion of the above society. They
are not drones in the hive, but are earnest and
laborious workers for the advancement of the
cause of Christ. Conscious of duty discharged,
they doubtless rejoice in the felt-favor of their
divine Master.
We can but hope that every lady in the
church may unite with them in their good
work.
—The Thomaston Herald of March 3d,
states that Rev. T. H. Btout preached two ex
cellent and appropriate sermons on the pre
vious Sabbath at the Baptist church, to large
and appreciative audiences.
The Missionary Field,
—The Shantung Presbytery, China, re
ports the addition of eighty-one converts to its
churches during the year, and twenty-three
children baptized; two churches built and
mostly paid for by native members ; and two
candidates licensed to preach the Gospel.
—The Foreign Mission Journal will soon be
revived by the Foreign Mission Board, at
Richmond, Virginia.
Anew Baptist church is about to be or
ganized from the Metropolitan Mission, on
Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C.
—Mssers. Lothrop & Cos. have in press, the
ninth edition of a work of much interest to
the religious community at large, and especial
ly to the several members of the Woman’s
Boards of Missions, it being the Memoir, by
Mrs- Lawrence, of Mrs. H. A. L. Hamlin,
for many years a prominent missionary in
Turkey.
—A Wesleyan missionary has returned
safely lrom a twenty months’ exploration of
New Britain and New Ireland Island of the
Australian group, to the East of New Guinea.
New Ireland was crossed for the first time by
a white man. No opposition was offered to
the explorers, but plenty of proofs of cannibal
ism were found.
—lt is nearly four hundred years since the
first attempt was made to introduce Christiani
ty into the Western part of Africa. In 1481
the Roman Catholics founded a mission, and
on,, for a period .of, two hundred
years. They made very littie impression.
Protestant missionary attempts were made by
the Moravians in 1736. Besides other socie
ties now on the coast, there are five denomina
tionsjof American Christians—Baptists, Metho
dists, Episcopalians, Presbyterans and Lu
therans.
—The missionaries in Japan, it is stated,
minister to 200,000 natives.
—There are now 520 congregations, and 7,-
000 children attend their schools, in the Holy
Land.
—ln the St. Paul Methodist church in New
York city, the collections for missions was
SIO,OOO, on a recent Sunday.
—A missionary writes : “Much certainly
depends on the way in which truth is present
ed. My colleague has a happy face and an
affectionate manner; he looks straight at his
hearers, and preaches not so much at them as
to them. In walking through the bazaart
folks stop him sometimes: ‘Well, sir, ain’
you going to preach here? What are you
passing us for ?’’
Before adjournment, the Senate confirmed
the nomination of T. J. Holtzclaw, as Major
General of the Alabama Militia ; also, the fol
lowing brigadier generals of militia: First
brigade, John H. Higley ; second, John Bol
ling; third, G. P. Harrison; fourth, R. C.
Jones; fifth, Osceola Kyle;sixth, M. L. Stan
sel ; seventh, J. W. Inzer; eighth, S. H.
Moore.
For the Index and Baptist. |
•RUINATION.
Dear Index— ln compliance with
the request of another, I will give you
a few notes concerning a meeting re
cently held in Lumpkin, Georgia.
According to previous arrangement,
brethren J. T. Clarke, of Cuthbert, and
J. H. Corley of Dawson, catne to as
sist the church in Lumpkin to ordain
brethren Dr. W. A. Gregory and E. M.
Sherum to the deacon’s office. Elder J.
H. Corley preached the sermon, after
which elder J. T. Clarke was called to
the chair, and brother Corley to act as
secretary. The writer conducted the
examination and offerd prayer, broth er
Clarke gave the charge to the deacons
and the church. The pastor, brother
J. W. P. Fackler, excused himself from
taking any part in the services, as there
were enough to perform the services
without him. The brethren ordained
are capable of making good and ef
ficient deacons, and we hope the church
will prosper under their deaconship.
Brother Clarke preached for us at
night, and services were continued
nightly during the week with some
good results, brother Corley doing moßt
of the preaching. H.
—The colored people of Georgia are
rapidly accumulating wealth. Statis
tics show that they pay taxes on 457,-
635 acres of land, and own a grand
aggregate of nearly six millions of
property.
THE CHRISTIAN
of Tennessee.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—Rev. Dr. Williams, in one of his lectures
on Baptist Church History, says:
When, a few years ago, the remains ol Roger
Williams were exhumed, it was found that the
roots of an apple tree had enwrapped them
closely. The righteous are fruitful even in
the dust of their mouldering. It is impossible
to say how much of our liberty, prosperity
and happiness as a nation are due to him and
to his teachings. The result has proved Wil
liams’ theories to be right—a free church is
able to hold its own in a free State. It still
remains the verdict of all history and all prov
idence, “The truth shall make you free.”
—A correspondent, giving Baptist items of
news from Baltimore, says:
Our Baptist Sunday-school teachers have or
ganized a monthly meeting, including pastors,
to foster Sunday-school work. Dr. Bitting
mads an opening address, in which'heexpress
ed his doubts whether our Sunday-schools are
not too much run in the interest of mere his
torical instruction about the Gospel, instead of
using the school to lead children to Christ.
Dr. J. W. M. Williams thought the schools
should be used to lead the pupils to the Sav
iour, and then to instruct them how to serve
Him
—Some of the theological students are con
ducting a successful revival among the people
connected with the factory, at Greenville, S. C.
—AtJudsonia, Arkansas, special meetings
have been held for several weeks, and thirty
six converts have been baptized. The church
now numbers over one hundred members.
Judsonia is the seat of the Baptist University,
and is rapidly growing in population.
—The Baptists of the State of New York
have been looking into their statistics, and as a
result they say “it appears that one-third of
our entire membership is in the city churches,
and that these churches contribute three
fourths of the entire sum raised for benevolent
purposes by the Baptists of the State."
—Dr. Sawtelle has left California in obedi
ence to an urgent call Eastward. The Evan
gel sayß: “He has been long identified with
Baptist interests on this coast, and has a warm
place in the Christian affection and confidence
of our people.
—ln Vermont there are 102 Baptist churches
with a membership of 8,829- There has been
a net gain during the past year of 579, or about
7 per cent, There are 68 pastors in the State,
and 25 ordained ministers without pastoral
chaigA There was latvetl for flie wprk of the
Convention last year $3,003, averaging abotjt
28 cents per member, or nearly $24 to tjie
church.
—On Sunday morning, February 4th, Rev.
Harvey Johnson, pastor of the Uuion church
in North street, Baltimore, baptized 113 can
didates in forty minutes; a larger number than
was ever baptized on one occasion before in
tiiat city.
—The Annual report of the Massachusetts
Baptist Convention shows that there are in the
State 289 churches, 239 pastors, and 340 or
dained ministers. The present membership
is 47,315. The number baptized last year is
2,822, a gain of about six per cent. Only 47
are reported as preparing for the ministry, less
than one in one thousand of the membership.
During the year three new churches have been
recognized, six houses of worship dedicated,
and ten ministers ordained. The amount con
tributed for all purposes is put down at SBOS,
455, an average of $2,787 a church, and sl7 a
member.
—The Rev. T. W. Conway, formerly of
New Orleans, has accepted a call to Vineland,
New Jersey.
—Among some East Tennessee Baptist news
furnished to the Watchman, we find the follow
ing : The churches at important centers are
all well supplied. Rev. Dr. J. F. B. Mayo
has been doing a grand work at Knoxville for
four years. Rev. J. M. Philipps succeeds
brother T. T. Eaton at Chattanooga. Rev. S.
W. Tindell, recently from Newton Theologi
cal Seminary, is in charge at Cleveland, a
growing place in lower East Tennessee. New
ton has turned off few better jobs than Tindell,
be the best neverso well done. Brethren Evans
at Morristown, Crouch at Jonesboro, Baker at
Mossy Creek, and Lloyd at Bristol, are faith
ful men at strategic points. Many of our
churches have had more than fifty additions
during the past year.
Brethren A. Routh, Thomas Gibbert, and J.
M. Carter, have done good service as evange
lists. More than 2,000 have been led to Christ
under their preaching within a twelvemonth.
—Calvary Baptist Church, Washington
City, (,Rev. Mr. Mason’s,) has a membership
of over 500, 140 having been added during the
past year. This church has no debt, sustains
a home Sabbath-school averaging an attend-.
anoe of 270, and two mission schools averaging
250 and 175 respectively.
—ln the Baptist churches of Illinois there
are reported to be 190,300 sittings, with a usual
attendance of 87,044 —being about 25,000 in
excess of membership, and 100,000 less than
could be accommodated, if they would attend.
—Rev. William Williams, D.D., until lately
professor of Systematic Theology in the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary at Green
ville, S. C., died on February 20th, at Aiken,
S. 0., where he had gone for health. He had
been in poor health for some time.
Mrs. G. B. Hall, of Baldwin county, died
at her home recently. Her dress caught on
fire, and she breathed in the flames, producing
such injuries internally, as to lead to a fatal
leeult.
WHOLE NO. 2259
General Denominational Hess,
—The Church of Scotland will ask Parlia
ment to pass an act conceding the spiritual in
dependence of the Church. As the abolition
of patronage failed to induce the Free Church
to return, it is hoped the new concession will.
—The English revisers of the Old Testament
have held forty-one sessions. They have car
ried their revision as far as Ezekiel 44:14. The
revisers of the New Testament have held sixty
five sessions. At their last meeting they
reached the sixth chapter of Hebrews.
Rev. M. M. Wamboldt, the pastor of the
Jacksonville, Florida, Baptist church, recently
baptized Rev. Mr. Swift, a Methodist minuter
of that place.
Nearly a third of the whole number of
Presbyterean churches in the United States,
could not report a single addition to the roll
of communicants last year.
—At the General Conference of the Menno
nite church, recently held at Elkhart, Indiana,
it was resolved that all members who had voted
at the late Presidential election should be ad
monished, and that every minister should try
to induce his members to abstain from voting.
The motto of the New Hampshire Sun
day-school Association is, “Better work for
Jesuß, and more of it.”
—ln Colorado and Wyoming Territory, the
Protestant Episcopal Church has, in the last
ten years, gained a permanent foothold. It
has now 18 churches and chapels, 4 rectories,
including an Episcopal residence, 2 boarding
schools, with large permanent buildings; 656
persons have be‘-n confirmed, and there are
now over 800 communicants and 17 clergy at
work. The value of church property acquired
is nearly $200,000.
—The Reformed Episcopalians of New
York and vicinity, now count nine churches,
and are gratified with signs of steady growth.
They have just taken steps for the erection of
a “Synod of New York.”
—The number of young men now receiving
aid from the Presbyterian Board of Education
is 426, of whom 234 are studying theology.
In point of scholarship, 103 of the 234 are
graded as “high,” 30 “above medium,” 74
“medium," 6“below medium,” and2l “low.”
- The first Baptist church of Charleston was
organized at Kittery, Me., September 25,1C82,
and was removed to Soutii Carolina, on atßusdtti
of persecutions, in the latter part of the same
year. This church, therefore, lacks only five
years of being 200 years old.
—Rev. W. H. H. Murray, of Boston, re
ceives about S4O for a sermon and $l5O for a
lecture.
—The Rev. Dr. Parker, of the South Con
gregational Church in Hartford, Conn., has
declined to read any more notices of church
entertainments from his pulpit.
It seems that the Russian Government
has an established church in this country, for
the Russio-Greek church edifice in New York,
the expenses of building it and the maintenance
of religious services therein, are defrayed by
the Russian Government.
—The Greek Catholic church began in the
year 300-12, the Roman or Latin Catholic
church in 606-10, the Episcopal church in
1534, the Lutheran in 1536, the Methodist
church in 1729, the Campbellite church about
1820, the Baptist church in 26, when John
the Baptiet first began to preach “Repent ye,
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at han<V’ and
to baptize none but those who gave evidence
of genuine repentance.
—Dr. Eggleston’s “Church of Christian
Endeavor” has succeeded in gathering In its
Sunday-school four scholars to each member.
—The Universalists of the United States
number 32,947 members in 656 church organ
zations.
—The Baptist Year Book reports an in
crease of 109,000 by baptism during the past
year.
—The London Methodist says the spirit of
revival is warm within the Wesleyan body.
—The Baptists in Great Britain report
2,671 churches, 3,476 chapels, 1,913 pastors in
charge, 3,524 lay-preachers, 265,777 members,
273,752 Sunday-schools, and sitting accommo
dation for 335,015 persons.
—The Moody and Sankey revival meetings
in Boston are very successful. The Taberna
cle, with its capacity for six thousand, is filled
to overflowing three times a day, and the ap
pearance of the vast audiences, shows most
unmistakably, the deep religious impression
resting upon them. No one can visit the
tabernacle without feeling an uncommon sa
credness and solemnity; and most who go,
rarely leave without a fixed purpose to seek a
r.ew religious life.
It is interesting to see the members of the
different churches, all at work in perfect
harmony in the inquiry-room, and in other
places, and it would be difficult for a stranger
to tell to what particular denomination ’any
one of them might belong. The union man
ifested by the ministers and churches of Boston
and viciniaity in this work is most delightful,
and is a beautiful illustration of united Chris
effort to save men.
Mr. W. W. McGuire father of Mrs. Robert
Baker, of Selma, died in Mobile on the 18th
inst., in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Mc-
Guire had been for good a many years a citizen
of Mobile, and for a long time was connected
with the press of that city.